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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

Edsurge

The two-legged, pill-shaped robot—upper half green, lower half white and small enough to stand on one’s palm—starts its lesson with a greeting. Designed for children ages 3 to 7, the robot, Roybi, aims to teach kids at home a range of early-childhood developmental skills. Roybi the robot. Hello my friend. Welcome back,” it says.

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Cat Ears and Robot Friends: What Japan’s Educational Future Could Include

Edsurge

At a morning session on Sunday, Kentaro Yoshifuji, CEO of Ory Lab , shared how a robot his company has developed is helping people with disabilities connect with friends, family and teachers when it’s difficult or near impossible for them to be physically present with peers. Robots don’t generally elicit warm, friendly emotions.

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CoderZ Names Tony Oran as Chief Executive Officer

eSchool News

CoderZ , the award-winning, gamified, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, has announced that Tony Oran is joining the company as its CEO in the USA. CoderZ is a gamified coding platform that makes it easy for anyone to learn (and teach), using robots to bring the subject matter to life! DERRY, N.H.

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Fraction + #Coding Lessons with @RoboticalLtd’s #MartyTheRobot | #STEM #mathchat #mtbos #edtech

techieMusings

You may have seen some of my posts featuring a very cute robot dancing around! I have been having a blast flexing my coding and creative lesson planning skills with Robotical’s #MartyTheRobot. When the Robotical team released some new math lessons, I had to check them out. I hope you enjoy these ideas!

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

One Assistant Superintendent assumed the role of a student who “got in trouble” during the game for leaving a robotics lab messy and had to do dusting chores before continuing on his twister-plot of math goals up to “level 8,” another school leader got to lead a small group poetry exercise as the language teacher.

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A Full Review of #MartyTheRobot by @RoboticalLtd for K-8+ #STEM #coding

techieMusings

“A real programmable robot with character!” ” That’s the slogan used by Robotical to advertise Marty the Robot and, after spending some time with it, I’ve got to say I think that’s pretty accurate! show demos of Marty executing each style of coding. Scratch Jr style coding.

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#CelebrateWithDE: National STEM Day

Discovery Education

Request a Demo. Request a Demo. -->. Learn about the wetlands, robots, food, bees, and more! . Request a Demo. Request a Demo. -->. Find educator activities in the Siemens STEM Day Channel. . Learn More. Learn More. -->. Find more STEM resources in Discovery Education! Go There Now. Go There Now. -->.

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